Sentences with phrase «local volunteer teams»

These organizers left with real action plans to win sex education campaigns, to fight for better transportation access so folks can get health care, and start local volunteer teams.

Donations support the distribution of essential emergency supplies, hot meals, new clothing and a safe place to stay for those affected, as well as training and equipment for local volunteer teams.

Like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition but for animal rescues, Animal House hosts, production team, corporate sponsors, and local volunteers teamed together to elevate Adams County Pet Rescue's abiltity to serve cats and dogs in need of medical attention and a forever home.

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On the day of its launch in April 2014, Cotopaxi held a competition called Questival in Utah that asked teams to compete for prizes by completing challenges like hiking or volunteering at a local soup kitchen.

Take the team to a local sports game, restaurant or plan a day of volunteering for a local charity.

If you are an entrepreneur launching a business and want to get ahead of your competitors, have you and your team ever considered volunteering to help out at local schools?

It sends teams of volunteer health professionals to carry out disaster relief, long - term development and community health programs with local partners, ships millions in humanitarian aid to countries around the world, and provides mobile dental care to those in need in the US.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed $ 440 million to charitable and not - for - profit organizations and volunteered more than 6.8 million hours of service to local communities since 2000.

Because Dr. Giullian, the local team and volunteers found a way to provide care during the natural disaster, they were able to treat every patient that required dialysis in the facility.

The Backbone Volunteers award goes to the team that played a consistent and reliable role in a local organization.

In the Hungary of 1947, for instance, volunteer teams of Party members spent their weekends in the countryside repairing war - damaged churches, in order to win the goodwill of the local population.

I also volunteer also on my local park maintenance team and during most political campaigns.

There was even a local high school sports coach (I forget if it was basketball or baseball) who brought his team to volunteer for the day.

Teams of baristas (in on - theme red and green aprons) will be traveling to «community celebrations, like tree lighting ceremonies, caroling, and events featuring local pillars, like volunteers, veterans, and teachers,» per Food & Wine, and handing out millions of dollars worth of $ 20 Starbucks gift cards.

If you are a business team, local community group or group of friends who can offer a team of volunteers to help out either pre-race or on race day then you need to get in touch as you will be most welcome

As Right To Play spearheads the handoff of responsibility to locals, such as a 500 - person team in Liberia led by a former refugee who first encountered SDP in a displacement camp, Kidd credits Koss with leading a move away from «a top - down, we - know - what - you - need approach with First World volunteers.»

Along with our coaching staff, we have volunteer players from local teams to play with the participants during camp.

«Since I've been at Manchester Metropolitan University, I've helped out our local club and our university club by volunteering as an RFU Game Finder, a role that consists of finding weekend games for players at University while also allowing the local club to link with the University's team through me.

Volunteers are valued members of the Mass Audubon team and provide an important link to our local communities.

On the left, volunteers see recent local activities, including people who updated their profiles or joined a volunteer team such as «Women for Obama.»

Sure, commando strike teams can take a lot of work to organize and train, but groups such as MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign have created mini-online industries to support their offline work, providing volunteers with step - by - step guides to holding house parties, fundraisers, local press events and the like.

Take action: Sign up to volunteer, join a local team, and talk to your neighbors about why you support President Obama.

Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted districts.

More than 9 million calls made via the online phone - banking tools on MyBO and Neighbor to Neighbor allowed remote volunteers to help «clean'the voter file before local teams ever made contact.

From local Labour teams, right up to the National Executive Committee, Labour is a volunteer - led organisation.

The all - volunteer organization B Team Buffalo will lead the charge to «Send Hunger Packing» this week, with people joining together to assemble hundreds of packages of trail mix and personal care items for Hearts for the Homeless, a local mobile soup kitchen.

«If you long for those high school days of being part of a team or are intrigued every time an emergency vehicle passes by, this is the time to get off your best intentions and check out your local volunteer fire department,» said Erie County Commissioner of Emergency Services Dan Neaverth Jr. «We provide the training, equipment and camaraderie.

For Hope Hart, Syngenta's product safety team leader, the company's commitment to social responsibility reinforces her volunteer work at local schools or community groups where she discusses the safety of GM crops or how they help increase small - farm — holders» profits.

I think about all the milestones in my kids» lives that I might have missed if this hadn't been caught in time — my daughters made the varsity basketball team as freshmen; my son was homecoming king and volunteer of the year at a local hospital.

In my spare time, I worked as a CNA to gain a little bit of medical experience and volunteered with multiple organizations including the Big Brothers Big Sister, hospice services, and the local hospital volunteer team.

You can try signing up for an evening class to learn something new, join a local recreational sports team, attend singles nights, volunteer for a fundraiser, or join a gym.

We now spend this day with every teaching and non-teaching staff members, including our executive team, volunteering one full day at a range of local charities and not - for - profits.

«We've assembled a bit of a green team, which are just student volunteers that have this initial passion to look after the environment and get involved in their local community,» the Science and Marine Studies teacher says.

Volunteers from your PTA or other team should visit local businesses early in the school year to make a personal connection.

Experience including directing plays at a local school, volunteering to lead acting classes in your community, or coaching a youth debate team can help your candidacy.

Rebecca is the older half of the sister team heretofore known as the Carlisle Girls: a literary light, excellent horsewoman, and regular volunteer at her local animal shelter.

Since then, BART and its volunteer team of professionals have responded to nearly 40 federally declared disasters as well as other smaller state and local events.

For any questions regarding SMART, including anyone interested in volunteering for their local County Animal Response Team (CART) contact:

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA — Earlier this week, our agency hosted a Bar - B - Que for our Animal Services team, our volunteers and our local partners to celebrate the amazing successes our team has accomplished since we took over Animal Services in Brevard County.

Earlier, BCSO hosted a Bar - B - Que for our Animal Services team, our volunteers and our local partners to celebrate the amazing successes our team has accomplished since we took over Animal Services in Brevard County.

This entails Mindi with a team of tenacious volunteers peacefully protesting every day outside their local pet store, Dyvig's, which they've been doing every weekend of the year for over 4 years now.

To mark World Spay Day, teams of volunteer veterinarians spayed and neutered 426 cats throughout Mexico City in a campaign supported by Humane Society International Mexico and executed by local organizations Cemegatos and Koncientizando.

Dogs are the most common animal «therapists,» but Pet Partners (formerly called the Delta Society), one of several national and local groups that certify pet - human volunteer pairs, has cats, birds, rabbits, horses and even llamas among its 10,000 teams.

With local and national events, memorable volunteer opportunities, and a mission that resonates with so many around the country, Best Friends Animal Society can offer your company a way to engage as a team while helping a cause that is close to the hearts of your employees and your customers — saving the lives of pets in shelters across the nation.

HOUSTON — Points of Light, with support of its local affiliate Volunteer Houston, is standing up a disaster recovery team and opening a Volunteer Reception Center at Harris County Precinct One's Finnigan Park Community Center, 4900 Providence Street, Houston, Texas 77020, where it is currently signing up volunteers to help with the Hurricane Harvey recovery.

Were it not for the heroic efforts of Best Friends Animal Society and a tireless team of volunteers (local and from across the country), nearly all of those cats would have died.

Trudy Garvey's passion of training dogs began in 2010 when she joined a local volunteer canine - specialized search - and - rescue (SAR) team.

The animals were assessed by a team of veterinarians in an unprecedented timeframe with the assistance of staff and volunteers from The HSUS and from local organizations, including The Humane Society of South Mississippi.

Currently Michelle spends her career time volunteering on the Minnesota Practice Act Committee, on various NAVTA committees, and owning and operating Vet Teams (www.vet-teams.com), whereas she provides relief and management services for various companion animal practices as well some specialty and referral practices; all while traveling to different local and national conventions such as AVMA, AAHA, MVMA, CMVA, and ISVMA to speak and mentor others in the field.

Consider joining us at one of our local events, or make a difference on our volunteer teams.